27 Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise,
Your seamen and your sailors,
Your repairers of leaks, your dealers in merchandise,
And all your men of war who are in you,
With all your contingent that is in your midst,
Will fall into the heart of the seas
On the day of your overthrow.
28 At the sound of the cry of your sailors,
The pasture lands will (A)shake.
29 All who handle the oar,
The (B)seamen and all the sailors of the sea
Will come down from their ships;
They will stand on the land,
30 And they will (C)make their voice heard over you
And cry out bitterly.
They will (D)throw dust on their heads,
They will (E)wallow in ashes.
31 Also they will shave themselves (F)bald for you
And (G)put on sackcloth;
And they will (H)weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.
32 Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a (I)song of mourning for you
And sing a song of mourning over you:
‘Who is like Tyre,
Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?
33 When your merchandise went out from the seas,
You satisfied many peoples;
With the (J)abundance of your wealth and your merchandise
You enriched the kings of the earth.
34 [a]Now that you are (K)broken by the seas
In the depths of the waters,
Your (L)merchandise and all your company
Have fallen in the midst of you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:34 Lit The time

27 Your wealth,(A) merchandise and wares,
    your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,
your merchants and all your soldiers,
    and everyone else on board
will sink into the heart of the sea(B)
    on the day of your shipwreck.
28 The shorelands will quake(C)
    when your sailors cry out.
29 All who handle the oars
    will abandon their ships;
the mariners and all the sailors
    will stand on the shore.
30 They will raise their voice
    and cry bitterly over you;
they will sprinkle dust(D) on their heads
    and roll(E) in ashes.(F)
31 They will shave their heads(G) because of you
    and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep(H) over you with anguish of soul
    and with bitter mourning.(I)
32 As they wail and mourn over you,
    they will take up a lament(J) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
    surrounded by the sea?(K)
33 When your merchandise went out on the seas,(L)
    you satisfied many nations;
with your great wealth(M) and your wares
    you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are shattered by the sea
    in the depths of the waters;
your wares and all your company
    have gone down with you.(N)

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